I want to write a report-like class (maybe based on KOMA-Script).
My problem is that the layout will be evolving and maybe the features of the package to. I would like to know if there is an easy way ...

I'm defining a new class. In this class I created an option total. This however breaks the document since apparently this option is passed to the geometry package, even though I'm not specifying this ...

I like to benefit from my existing myarticles.bib file to create a different report automatically something like in following picture (I prepared this template with tikz).
What is it best way to do ...

I found a template on writeLaTex.com for optica style articles. I downloaded the optica.cls from the optical website so i could follow that format. Just fooling around to learn more and unfortunately ...

I am using 12pt fonts with what is essentially the article class. (That is, I'm using a custom class which is parasitic on article.cls.)
In order to set an appropriate headheight for fancyhdr using ...

When I'm working on a document for which I need special layout, I tend initially to accumulate a very long preamble. At some point, if I need to reuse similar layout regularly, I decide that I really ...

I was trying to write a simple class and have the following issue:
I need to write some text containg German quotation marks that is staic and thus should be typeset by the class by default.
You can ...

An information I'm often missing when I have a look at the "Change History" of a package/classe is the dates of the changes because, IMHO, just the version number is not informative enough: if I could ...

Suppose you want to set, in a .sty or .cls file, some hyperref's options in case the end user loads this package. Because that's only at the begin of the document you know if hyperref has been loaded, ...

I'm creating a document class based upon memoir. For this, I allow several
class options to be passed to my code. Options that are not recognized will
simply be passed to memoir.
Now my question is: ...

I'd like to create some handouts and documents with keywords for my daily presentations in school. As opposed to the tufte layouts theses documents are only one or two pages long.
The handout should ...

I'm trying to write a class file with certain options (e.g centered title, vs title on the left). When I compile a *.tex file that calls this class, I get the an undefined control sequence error for ...

I've got a bundle I'd like to properly document (and begin to release) that uses expl3 intimately, and it should be documented similarly to expl3 itself (as seen in texdoc interface3.
I did a little ...

A document (typical of many) has a header which displays a timestamp in the form of a text string (“25 December 2013”). The timestamp string originates in a file "update" which is loaded with \input.
...

I am new to LaTeX and have completed my first document recently, and it came out to be excellent. However, I am not going to make several more documents which shall be similar. I found that although ...

When splitting a document with the standalone class and package, the option subpreambles causes the main document to include all the preambles of the sub-files. The other way around is more difficult.
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I'm making a custom Latex class which I am basing on the article class. When compiling a document I get ! LaTeX Error: No \title given., even though I use \title in the document.
How can I solve this ...

I am fairly new to LaTeX and am trying to write a book. Being a newbie I plumped for \documentclass{book} because that seemed like the obvious choice but I can't get it to look like a book. I'm fairly ...

I think that what I would like to do is a class file, however beamer is a latex class, so I'll try the long description:
I have written quite a few commands to make a beamer document look the way I ...